Major City Cheyenne Top Tourist Sites Yellowstone National Park is a canyon with a geyser.
Devils Tower is a volcanoe that became the nation's first national monument in 1906.
Jackson Hole is the heart of Wyoming's ski country. State Symbols
Bird: Western Meadowlark
Flower: Indian Paintbrush Nickname: Equality State Motto: Equal Rights
Famous or Fun Facts Each July thousands of people come to Cheyenne to watch a rodeo for Frontier Day.
Wyoming is called the Equality State because in 1869 the territorial legislature passed the country's first female suffrage bill which is giving women the right to vote.
Many cowboys worked on cattle and sheep in ranches in Wyoming. Geography The land regions of Wyoming are the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the International Basins. The three great rivers are Missouri, Colorado, and Columbia. Climate Wyoming has a dry, sunny climate. Winters are cold and the summers are warm.
Cheyenne
Top Tourist Sites
Yellowstone National Park is a canyon with a geyser.
Devils Tower is a volcanoe that became the nation's first national monument in 1906.
Jackson Hole is the heart of Wyoming's ski country.
State Symbols
Bird:
Western Meadowlark
Flower:
Indian Paintbrush
Nickname:
Equality State
Motto:
Equal Rights
Famous or Fun Facts
Each July thousands of people come to Cheyenne to watch a rodeo for Frontier Day.
Wyoming is called the Equality State because in 1869 the territorial legislature passed the country's first female suffrage bill which is giving women the right to vote.
Many cowboys worked on cattle and sheep in ranches in Wyoming.
Geography
The land regions of Wyoming are the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the International Basins. The three great rivers are Missouri, Colorado, and Columbia.
Climate
Wyoming has a dry, sunny climate. Winters are cold and the summers are warm.